Donald Tait has written a fascinating booklet about the history of the Borgue Hotel. You can buy a copy of the booklet from the Borgue Hotel or click on the image below to read the booklet online.
Borgue Hotel Booklet
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Borgue Field Names and James Brown booklets now on sale
During the summer of 2021, there were two exhibitions featuring the Borgue area at Mill on the Fleet. The first exhibition was about a project that collected and analysed the names of farm fields around Borgue. The second exhibition was about the life and times of James Brown of Knockbrex. A booklet has been created for each of these exhibitions and can be obtained from the Kirkandrews Kirk online shop. Click on the image below to go to the online shop.
If you are in the Borgue area, you can contact a member of the Kirkandrews Kirk Trust to obtain copies of these booklets for £5 each and save the postage costs.
James Brown Exhibition at Mill on the Fleet
Field Names in D&G Life
The August 2021 edition of Dumfries & Galloway Life magazine has an article about the Borgue Field Names project.
Borgue Field Names Exhibition
There will be an exhibition of the Borgue Field Names project at the Mill on the Fleet in Gatehouse from mid-June until the end of July. Many thanks to Ken Smyth from Mill on the Fleet for providing the space and preparing the excellent presentation materials. Click on the image below for more information.
Field Name Descriptions
New web pages have been added to the site with photographs and descriptions of some of the more interesting field names in the Borgue area. Fields such as Cuddle Cosy, Hac Noose and Doon Yeard are described. You can see them by navigation to PLACE->Borgue Field Names then selecting the menu items for each field.
Curling Ponds Mapped
The locations of Curling Ponds in Galloway have been added to the Galloway Place Names map. To show the ponds on the map, load the map by clicking on the image above then choose: Features->Curling Ponds from the menu at the top of the map. You can click on the curling pond symbols to get more information about each pond. Most of these are no longer used for curling but it shows how popular curling was in the past, with each village having its own pond or loch that was used for the sport. I’m sure that there are many more of these so please send in any information on curling pond locations using the form below.
Galloway Glens Place Names Map
A new map has been added to the site showing all of the place names collected in the Galloway Glens Place Names project.
Borgue Field Names map is now online
An interactive map showing Borgue field names and other local information is now online. Click on the image above to see the map. The map displays all of the fields in the Borgue area along with an analysis of the origins of the field names. Other information can also be viewed on the map, including points of interest and data from other historical maps and sources.
Belties at the Coo Palace in 1919
Thanks to Donald Tait for sending some images of an article in Country Life magazine from 1919. It describes James Brown’s herd of prize Belted Galloways and has some interesting photographs of the cattle and some of the local buildings. Click on the image below to see the article.
